| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4987 |
| QUOTATION: | The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman’s worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. The narrator’s summary of Henry Crawford’s comment about Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, ch. 30 (1814). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Austen Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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